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It’s been the biggest year yet for Search For A Star and Rising Star. The student games programming competition has continued to see strong numbers of students undertaking our C++ HackerRank test, while in our second year hosting the student games art competition has seen submissions almost double. A total of 624 students have submitted […]

Aardvark Swift have won Best Recruitment Agency at this year’s TIGA Awards, one of the most prestigious events in the games industry. Our Grads In Games initiative also made it as a finalist for the Education Initiative and Talent Development award

In episode 2 we follow three more students as they develop their own game and face a professional interview to discover if they have the skills, passion and ambition to make them stand out as a game dev star. This week we meet Tamara “Tami” Tanasescu of Edinburgh’s Herriot-Watt University, Sam Cipolat from the University of Hull and Robin Van Nunen of NHTV.

We’re proud to be sponsoring the TIGA Awards and excited to announce that we’re a finalist for two awards! Taking place on Thursday 10th November, the TIGA Awards recognise talent and excellence within the games industry at a prestigious awards ceremony in London, attended by industry leaders and the media. Award categories cover both the […]

Join us as we follow the stories of those taking part in Search For A Star, one of the toughest student games dev competitions around, and get a glimpse behind the scenes at what it takes to work in the games industry.

Pixel Blast’s Super Powerboy is available now on the App Store. Arcade action game Super Powerboy brings back that feeling of playing games like Mega Man for the first time. Set in a world that has been taken over by alien invaders, Super Powerboy has to save the day by collecting enough alien power source to […]